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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 12]
TRANSLATION
Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī  said: O learned saints, the childhood pastimes of  Śrī Kṛṣṇa  are very wonderful. Mahārāja Parikṣit, after hearing about those pastimes of  Kṛṣṇa , who had saved him in the womb of his mother, became steady in his mind and again inquired from  Śukadeva Gosvāmī  to hear about those pious activities.
TEXT 41
श्रीराजोवाच
ब्रह्मन् कालान्तरकृतं तत्कालीनं कथं भवेत् । यत् कौमारे हरिकृतं जगुः पौगण्डकेऽर्भकाः ॥४१॥
śrī-rājovāca brahman kālāntara-kṛtam tat-kālīnam katham bhavet yat kaumāre hari-kṛtam jaguḥ paugaṇḍake 'rbhakāḥ
śrī-rājā uvāca—Mahārāja Parikṣit inquired; brahman—O learned brāhmaṇa (Śukadeva Gosvāmī); kāla-antara-kṛtam—things done in the past, at a different time (in the  kaumāra  age); tat-kālīnam—described as happening now (in the  paugaṇḍa  age); katham bhavet—how could it be so; yat—which pastime; kaumāre—in the  kaumāra  age; hari-kṛtam—was done by  Kṛṣṇa ; jaguḥ—they described; paugaṇḍake—in the  paugaṇḍa  age (after one year); arbhakāḥ—all the boys.
TRANSLATION
Mahārāja Parikṣit inquired:  O great sage, how could things done in the past have been described as being done at the present? Lord  Śrī Kṛṣṇa  performed this pastime of killing  Aghāsura  during His  kaumāra  age. How then, during His  paugaṇḍa  age, could the boys have described this incident as having happened recently?
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तद् ब्रूहि मे महायोगिन् परं कौतूहलं गुरो । नूनमेतद्वरेव माया भवति नान्यथा ॥४२॥